Dog Control

Accessory to Hate Crimes

I had started my civil-service page with how a local area authority have been manipulated as instrument of hate crime against me personally, much to the delight of faceless trolls, who guffaw in glee at the distress they cause without repercussions, but now I split this off as a separate page. I will keep it in my "hate" section because it's more about ignorant petty bureaucrats on a power trip punching down without mercy on a vulnerable individual than about caring for your dog.

Last updated: 2022-09-12

2022-08-18 CCC stalking my social media

A log from my website show an IP address visiting my site, coming from my Twitter. It turns out that CCC runs their own ISP and evidently someone on their network is stalking my Twitter as well as my website. It implicates them as complicit in ongoing cyber persecution. This is not a "civil service". It's totalitarian police state.

Bureaucrat on a power trip

Although it does make provision for local by-laws, The dog control act just states that a dog needs to be under effective control. The intent of said act is to ensure that animals are properly cared for and don't cause harm to other people.

On a daily basis I see well trained dogs being walked without a leash. Some owners even cycle with their trustworthy companions running besides them. A leash is redundant with a dog that is under effective control as required by law.

Then unexpectedly I found a notice of dog nuisance complaint in my letter box. It said I was out when they called so they wanted me to phone. I did and below is the recording.

Well I never said I was taking her to court. I wanted to take their informant to court because the report was made out of malice. I explain I had checked their website and it's clear I was unaware of their 2016 by law. She just bullies and threatens me with penalties. I also didn't say I was going to the UN nor had intention to prosecute her. What I wanted was a hearing in court to settle their complaint. Also I do have a right to demand they show warrant of authority.

Actual History

Anyone who has watched sheep dog trials will understand that NZ heading dogs need a lot more exercise and mental stimulus too than one can give them on a lead. Audible commands, visual signals and having a task at hand is how we control them.

I spent a lot of time building my relationship with Lucy. Recently retired I was looking forward to taking her for long nature walks in the surrounding country side. I did not think it an unreasonable expectation. Alas the hills round Christchurch are off limits. They are reserved for sheep regardless if my dog would worry them.

Time and again disappointed to see dog leash impositions on designated walking routes, we had to make do with designated dog parks, but then along came Covid lockdown bylaws. Despite there being no science to back it, we were commanded to use a leash there too. Week after week we struggled to somehow get the exercise we needed and I committed my living room to playing "glow bounce" with Lucy.

It became untenible, so I made a video to show that Lucy really doesn't need a lead to be safe arround traffic. Hater trolls descended on my Bitchute channel and eventually just bullied me off, so I uploaded it to Rumble. They stalked me there and abused it to dob me in with Christchurch animal control.

Odious cowards who don't even live nearby have been trashing my life out of sheer malice for years and nobody will lift a finger to stop them, yet look how readily one auithority after the other has been mobilized to penalize a vulnerable and isolated individual like me, while these obnoxious shits guffaw in glee behind their keyboards at the distress they cause with impunity.

The reason I want it in court is because I want to know if justice in our land is once again just going to empower and encourage the haters. Should I pay up, suffer in silence and let it carry on for another 16 years, or until they finally do bully me into suicide or an early grave?

I did try to reason with council, but they ignored my communications. They slapped on court fees without giving me any opportunity to present my case. Acting like fascist Nazis, our ministry of justice made outrageous threats (click thunbnail to see one they order me to delete). Then WINZ confiscated penalties directly from my pension. One authority after the other gives me the run around when I try to contest it.

The worst of the matter is that the complaints were made of malice by a cyber troll who has been harassing, impersonating, stalking and slandering me for some time. After the penalty was imposed I did decide not to walk Lucy off the lead near busy roads, but click the thumbnail to see a gallery of persisting taunts and antagonizing. It's provokation with intent of entrapment and so I decided to make another video making damn sure I do get my say in court this time. Whatever the court determines, come Hell or High water, I'm not putting up with this relentless persecution for the rest of my life.

2022-04-28 animal control

Out for a walk and Tama and Fuego get so excited they start barking at Lucy and sometimes even snap at her. I have to restrain them on leads. Understandably it stresses Lucy out and she starts barking too. I have to tell her go walk on the other side of the road, so today I took lucy for a walk on her own. The puppies were livid and barking their heads off as we left, but Lucy was happy she loved a good run round off the lead. She followed my every command to perfection. Almost home and Lucy is trotting along at my heels. An animal control warden pulls up on the other side of the road so I calmly dig Lucy's lead out of the bag, slip it over her head. We carry on walking and the warden drives off.

We get home and minutes later Lucy is barking at the window. There is that large cream color dog again that has been roaming free in our area for several weeks now. When I'm out with my dogs, with, or without a lead, I have them under appropriate control and I'm there supervising so I know they are safe, but this one on it's own would be more of a concern, maybe that's what the warden had come for, but they obviously missed it. The dog looks well cared for, relaxed and isn't causing nuisance, so I won't be phoning animal control. In my recent experience they're just agro and best avoided.

Nature Walks with my Dogs

I have been looking for places where I can take my dogs for nice walk out in nature and let them burn off energy, which you really can't do with a heading dog on a lead. I googled nature trails in the area, there are dozens, but every single one stipulates that dogs must be on the leash regardless how well behaved they might be.

Not that long a go I did a video of Lucy with me on Travis Wetland walk. Somehow I had failed to notice the signs about compulsory leashes, but once I realized I didn't dare to upload it anywhere for fear the cyber trolls would be dobbing me in again with the little Hitlers of city council, however I don't actually give a shit anymore, so here it is:

What prompted me to check this today was a letter from our MP (Labour) bragging "We delivered $15.8 million shovel ready funding for the final section of Te Ara Ihutia - the Christchrch Coastal Pathway"... oh how generous they are when spending MY rates on something I can't enjoy. Their failure to consider what rate payers actually want makes me want to puke, but I doubt they will be prepared to fund that.

2021-11-13 Little Hitler

A dog control van came hurtling past. It swerved dangerously close to the curb and screeched to a halt straddling the cycle path and on the yellow lines that indicate no parking. The curb there protrudes into the road by a designated crossing where Lucy was waiting...

I've trained Lucy since she was a puppy so she remains completely unphased. She trusts me, like I trust her. True to her nature and breeding, she is keen, eager and ready to handle my next command and she also knows what not to do without my explicit instruction. I am confident she is safe and under effective control when she is with me.

Here I restage a scene which culminated in truculent abuse of authority by a pedantic petty official on a power trip.

Beligerently the dog warden leaps from her vehicle shouting That dog needs to be on a lead. Actually the law just says that a dog must be under effective control. Many of our neighbours who have seen us out and about would agree that she really is an attentive and well trained dog. Consequently a lead would serve no purpose, so I said that she doesn't need to be on any lead.

This triggers the dog warden into appoplectic rage. She shrieks that I would be the one she reprimanded previously, although I have no recollection of seeing her ever before. She announced she was going to issue an infringement, so I called her a fascist as I slipped the dog chain over Lucy's head and took my disappointed companion straight home.

On our walks I already have my hands full: My regular bag, a ball thrower (that we had been using the park), a bag of her pooh (yes, I do tidy them up but don't want to put that in my main bag incase it leaks). I also had a bag of crushed drinks cans. These I collect on my walks, hoping to make ends meet by selling them for scrap metal and it helps keep the environment tidy. I only put her on a lead when I think it will actually be safer than voice command. What Lucy's breed does need is an intellectual challenge, appreciation for her contribution and exercise that even an Olympic champion would struggle to give her on a leash.

I suspect this dog warden, must have been the one who had phoned me a few weeks earlier. I missed the call and had to ring back as they didn't leave any message. It was extremely annoying to waste most of my credit listening to their jingles and repetitive prerecording about their web site and to stay on the line. In fact I might have sworn a few times at the mindless machine and it certainly didn't put me in a good frame of mind.

When I finally did get put through to the right person I learned they had received a 'complaint' of dog nuisance, she wouldn't say from whom. Someone calling himself Stuart Duncan was bragging about it being his handy work, but he doesn't even live in my area so he can have suffered no nuisance from my dog, instead he used footage from my social media to workout where I live. This kind of harassment has done me a lot of harm over the years, so I told Animal Control that they were participating in ongoing malevolent hate crimes. For that I had received a first warning and subsequent to this latest confrontation I got an infringement notice demanding $300 penalty. I assume I've lost my eligibility as responsible dog owner and with that too they will penalise me financially.

I didn't feel I could engage with such vitriol, so I did nothing and by clicking on the icon you can read their escalating threats... to seize my assets, take my driving license, damage my credit rating take my home and throw us out on the street: Way out of proportion IMHO. Recently I recieved two court "collections" notices from the ministry of justice. In summary, I get no opportunity to contest liability. They just want me to say how much I can afford to pay a week so they can then deduct that from my pension. I see no merit in paying this fine voluntarily, so my response is below.

Stuart Duncan may well think it's funny, however, once a decision is reached on my harmful communications case (that involves him) I may take him to small claims court to recover damages he caused with his unprovoked malice. I think it's important to set a precedent that may deter malevolent cyber trolls like him from abusing authorities for their evil personal mind games, don't you?

Update: Adjacent WINZ collecting the infringement fee for not having Lucy on a lead even though she was well controlled and doing exactly what I was telling her to.

Imposed Dependence

Before I finish and while I know the issue isn't resolved, I just want to go back to dog control:

Lucy was on heat and while I would only take her out where there were no other dogs a male bullmastiff must have smelt her and turned up on my driveway. He was a perfectly nice dog, but people walking past were frightened and shouted abuse at me. They didn't realize he wasn't mine.

The civilized thing to do, would be just to phone the owner and let them know where their dog was, or even take it straight back myself, but the registration dog id tags don't have the owner's details. I had no choice but to phone dog control. They came and took him away, but wouldn't say whose it was so when he turned up the next night I had to phone them again. The owners drove past several times calling his name but I was too slow to catch them. The council said they don't come after dark so I was kept awake all night by a very sad bullmastiff rattling the gate and crying. In the morning they finally phoned the owners who came round to collect him. The owner luckily did tell me where they live and the next time he turned up I was able to return him myself. I was a bit grumpy with her, but she explained that kids across the road kept letting him out and said she was sorry.

The point is that this whole system is to give city council total control, deprive us of ability to sort things out amicably ourselves and enable their wardens to impose fines. My opinion is that dog owners need to ditch council dog id tags and use one with our own details.

Out walking Lucy for her early morning walk, we've seen several dead cats by the side of the road recently, but there are no regulations about them running free unsupervised. What is all this dog licensing nonsense for anyway? Life shouldn't need a license from these pen pushers, should it? Who the Hell do they think they are?